Anxiety--Josiah

 

Anxiety is a very powerful emotion not only due to the fact that the feeling of being
anxious for something can mess with your whole day, but being anxious can also bring up many
other emotions. Being an anxious person, I can say that when I get anxious about something I
can become less patient and more agitated at things because I am busy worrying about
something that is going to happen in the future. Sometimes I don’t think about the things I say in
a moment of anxiety, which a lot of the time ends up hurting people's feelings. Being anxious is
often mistaken for other emotions, and that can be incredibly problematic because instead of
giving someone ways to help calm the nerves down they are being told they are too angry and
need to calm down. Thinking the problem is something else can lead to many problems but I
feel one of the worst ones is that even if the person is trying hard to work on themselves they're
working on the wrong thing, so they won’t be feeling any better, just frustrated that they aren’t
making any progress. Anger isn’t the only problem that can stem from anxiety. Another problem
would be if someone just completely pushes themselves away from others and isolates
themselves. Whether that be due to the fact that they don’t want to be a burden to others or
because they don’t want to hurt other people, it is not a good thing since then the anxiety only
gets worse. Thinking rationally, it is best to seek help considering other people can offer new
perspectives that you would never be able to see by yourself, but that’s the problem with
anxiety. Anxiety makes it very difficult to think rationally.

I’ve always been an anxious person, I think it was mainly due to the fact that I have
parents who have expressed their worries all throughout my life, but I also believe that I would
struggle with anxiety even without them. Being a parent comes with a lot of anxiety so it
becomes very easy for a lot of parents to push those worries onto their kid, making their kids
worry about the same thing. The dictionary definition of anxiety is a feeling of fear, dread, and
uneasiness. To me anxiety is significantly more complex than that, I don’t think that anxiety is
only a simple, strong feeling, it can also be an afterthought in the back of the mind. But it never
goes away. It might for a second or two, but then comes right back like an annoying fly that
doesn’t understand you swatting at means to go away. It’s persistent. The intervals may change
but it’s always there, which is one of the reasons anxiety can be so frustrating. The complexity
of anxiety is one of the factors that makes it such a powerful emotion, because it is so powerful
it is very important to understand what anxiety is and what makes a person anxious.